Jackie's angel delight

A CHEERY camera-phone shot of two friends taken on a winter's evening earlier this year shook one of the participants to the core when she later came to view it.
By The Newsroom
Published 24th Jun 2010, 14:18 BST
Updated 7th Jun 2018, 20:15 BST

For hovering beside her was an image that looked uncannily sepulchral, and which has left Jackie Acott convinced that she now has a guardian angel in her life.

Jackie, who is in her 20s, works for Swinton Insurance and lives in North London.

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She contacted her step-father, Derick Short, at The Gorseway, Little Common, to share the photograph with him.

Mr Short said: "Just a few months prior to the photo being taken, my step-daughter's grandfather had died.

"She was devoted to him and he adored his only grand-daughter.

"After this angelic shape appeared from nowhere in the picture, apparently hovering close to her shoulder, she is now firmly of the belief that her late grandfather is watching over her."

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Mr Short said that both he and Jackie share an interest in the supernatural, and added: "We're both completely at a loss to give any kind of rational explanation as to what, precisely, this image may be.

"Could it be that she now has her very own guardian angel?

"It's certainly a possibility we both prefer."

Mr Short stressed that the image is completely untouched and has not been edited or re-mastered in any way.

A trick of the light? An errant snowflake caught in the flash?

Who's to say?